Ben Hanowski Ties and then Sets Record

Little Falls Flyer, Senior Forward, Ben Hanowski ties and then sets the record in Minnesota High School Boys Hockey for most career points. The goal that tied the record came when the Flyers were skating short-handed. St. Cloud Apollo had a five on three advantage. At first it appeared that a save was made on Hanowski's shot, as if in slow motion, the puck trickled over the goal line. Moments later, in the same video, the flyers scored a second short-handed goal.



Hanowski's record setting point came on a well placed wrist shot over the goalies glove, into the upper corner. The crowd, estimated by some to be around 2,000, went nuts.



Hanowski, who will be playing for St. Cloud State next year, started the season 108 points behind Johnny Pohl's record for most career points. Pohl set the record when he played for Red Wing High School from 1995 to 1998. He accumulated 378 points during that time.
It took Johnny Pohl 112 games to reach his long standing record of 378 total points. Hanowski did it in 111 games.

Although the record is a great achievement, Ben would be the first to tell you that it doesn't compare to the team goal of heading back to the state tournament to bring home some hardware.

Congratulations to the entire Flyer hockey team on their perfect regular season record! The Little Falls community is proud of you.

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Sermon Length

I was reading another pastor's blog today and he was asking the question, "How long do most pastors preach for"? As I read the comments I noticed that most were around 30 minutes. I generally preach for about that time also. It wasn't always that way however.

Mark Batterson's blog got me thinking about the first time I ever preached. I was in high school and my youth pastor had asked me to preach to my peers in a youth group setting.

I worked hard on my message for a couple of weeks and when the night finally arrived I was done preaching in about 5-10 minutes. My youth pastor had to come up and add on another 20 minutes. I laugh now thinking, "It takes me five minutes just to introduce my message".

I don't know if there is a right length of time for a pastor to share a message. There are many factors to consider such as the audience, the topic, consideration for the children's workers, being obedient to God with whatever He has given you and if there are time restraints because of multiple services. I think the attention span of most allow for around 30 minutes.

At Living Hope Church, where I pastor, we meet in two locations. On the Sunday's when I am preaching at both, I am more conscious of the length in our first service because I need to allow time to visit people after and still get to our second service on time.

I am curious about your thoughts. Jot me a note.

Rice Campus Appreciation Night

Hats off to all of our ministry volunteers at Living Hope Rice Campus. We had a great time last night with the "50's" as our theme. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Some charades with 50's topics brought out some very unusual gestures.

Serving God in ministries can be very hard but it is also rewarding and fun. We should always have a blast serving God.

Special thanks to Pastor Bobby and Jen for all your hard work on this great night.

Godrev.com

There is a great website that I want to introduce you to. It is called godrev.com. GodRev’s vision is to use the latest technology to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ worldwide, in partnership with Christian organizations and churches. Their desire is to expand the ministry to the thirty-five most-used languages on the Internet in the next ten years, exposing 250 million people to the Gospel, and helping 25 million people come to Jesus as a result of this effort.

When someone finishes going through the pages explaining God's love and desires for them, they are presented with a written prayer. This prayer expresses a desire to change their life from one in rebellion against God, to one living with God. When a visitor decides to pray this prayer of repentance, they have the option of clicking on a button labeled "Yes, I have just prayed this prayer." At this point, they are listed as having made a decision for Jesus.

It is a website where you can watch in real time the people who are praying to receive Jesus-Christ through there web ministry. It works in conjunction with google. Google will fly you all over the world to the persons location in 3-d.

When you watch it for a while, you can't help but say, "Praise the Lord". It is so cool to see people from China to Russia, Africa to the U.S. giving their heart to the Lord.